join us

THANK YOU for supporting Newton’s 1st Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Newton (IPDN) Ceremonial Celebration! We are already planning next year's event with gusto.

Over the past few years, Massachusetts has worked towards building a better relationship with Indigenous communities. As part of this effort, a number of cities and towns have officially re-designated Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day (IPD), and Indigenous organizations and non-Indigenous allies are currently working to adopt Indigenous Peoples Day state-wide. We hope you will continue to support us in whatever ways you are able. Please read more about the ways in which you can get more involved with IPDN!

donate

Your individual financial contributions help support our programming throughout the year as well as the Indigenous Peoples Day Newton ceremonial celebration so that we might invite Indigenous peoples from all over the Americas to participate and be generously compensated for their time and teachings. We strive to always honor, value, and cherish our Indigenous relatives for their energies.

sponsor

Your company's philanthropic support allows us to build better infrastructure and give us a broader reach to enhance our programming on the day of IPD Newton's ceremonial celebration. With your sponsorship we not only bring incredible speaker, performers, and artists to Newton but we also expand our supportive community by knowing and working with you. Thank you for your consideration!

attend

As we have grown, we have begun to host events throughout the year to raise awareness about our ceremonial celebration as well as deliver meaningful educational content to Newton about Indigenous peoples and our gifts and history.

Please join us for a future event! We hope to see you soon.

vend

Our ceremonial celebration not only host incredible speakers and performers but also vendors representing many different Indigenous nations, allies, community organizations, and local service providers.

By creating a holistic event that includes not only our talent on the stage but also showcases the many gifts we express as Indigenous folks and allies surrounding the stage, we hope each individual who joins is to celebrate learns something new, makes a new friend, and expands their mind to see how very diverse Indigenous peoples are in the Americas and beyond. And, most importantly, we are still here! Stronger than ever.

volunteer

Not only is our planning committee comprised of volunteers but the conducting of the day-long event with stage performers and speakers, vendors, and individuals who watch over our children and elders take many, many hands and hearts to accomplish all that is our ceremonial celebration. We also host other events we host throughout the year leading up to the event.

In other words, we need YOU, Newton residents! The more the merrier. It takes a village!

Please fill out our volunteer form if you would be interested in volunteering on Monday, October 10, 2022.

take action

Our statewide Indigenous Peoples Day bills were just favorably voted out of the MA Joint Committee on State Admin. & Regulatory Oversight. While that is a great first step, we need your help immediately to try to get this legislation passed.

IPD Mass website: "Words have meanings; [...]. If we continue to erase Indigenous peoples, and celebrate a colonizer (Christopher Columbus) [...], that will have a direct impact on the ways Indigenous peoples are treated. If we can’t even so much as celebrate the first peoples of this land, and not the person responsible for the largest genocide ever committed, then how can we expect good public policy or day to day treatment for Native Americans?"